Jerry DeMarco

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Born in Newark and raised in Hudson County, Jerry DeMarco is a 38-year veteran of the news industry and a renowned breaking news reporter. He has covered local, county and state police, as well as the FBI, ATF and other federal agencies.

DeMarco joined Daily Voice in 2015 after six years running Cliffview Pilot, one of the nation's few independent breaking news sites. As an independent publisher, he helped establish Local Independent Online News, a national trade organization.

Prior to launching his own site, DeMarco served as a reporter for the Bergen Record, Stamford Advocate, Rockland Journal News, News Tribune, and Trenton Times.

DeMarco has won national recognition for his investigative work, including Clarion, Heywood Broun and Deadline Club awards. He's changed public policy and managed several major projects -- including one that helped put a corrupt public official in federal prison and another that forced a sitting New Jersey attorney general from office for her participation in a Bergen County traffic stop involving her boyfriend.

DeMarco regularly lectures at a graduate course in media relations at Fairleigh Dickinson University and previously was an adjunct professor at Lehman College in the Bronx. 

He has a Bachelor's Degree in English from St. Peter's University in Jersey City.

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Hackensack, NJ
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Hackensack home health-care aide from Fort Lee, others, charged with Medicaid fraud Hackensack home health-care aide from Fort Lee, others, charged with Medicaid fraud Hackensack home health-care aide from Fort Lee, others, charged with Medicaid fraud
Hackensack home health-care aide from Fort Lee, others, charged with Medicaid fraud YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Fort Lee home health care aide working for a Hackensack-based agency billed Medicaid for services he didn’t provide during a period when he was out of the country or working another job, a state indictment alleges. Elhan Gurban, 52, was one of three people connected to Confident Care Corporation indicted by the state grand jury on charges of scamming the Medicaid program out of more than $72,000 combined. Separate indictments name Gurban, Roman Abashkin, 32, and Semen Rybalov, 68, both of Wayne, acting state Attorney General John J. Hoffman said this afternoon. …

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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Arrest for Oakland massage parlor employee charged with prostitution Arrest for Oakland massage parlor employee charged with prostitution Arrest for Oakland massage parlor employee charged with prostitution
Arrest for Oakland massage parlor employee charged with prostitution YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Oakland police and the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office busted a 42-year-old massage parlor employee on prostitution charges today. A two-month investigation led an undercover investigator to Massage 4 U on Ramapo Valley Road, near the Motor Vehicle office, where Hailan Jin of Flushing, Queens, “propositioned the detective for a sexual act in exchange for cash,” Police Chief Edward Kasper said. Members of a special prosecutor’s task force and Oakland officers entered the business and took Jin into custody, Kasper said. She was issued a disorderly persons summons…

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Bergenfield, NJ
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Englewood police officer, motorist injured in crash Englewood police officer, motorist injured in crash Englewood police officer, motorist injured in crash
Englewood police officer, motorist injured in crash YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An Englewood police officer was involved in a collision while responding to a call of a female motorist injured by a tree limb that crashed through her windshield. The officer was in his patrol cruiser on the Jones Road overpass by Route 4 when the crash occurred around 12:45 p.m. Air bags in both vehicles deployed, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The officer and the other driver, a woman, were taken to the hospital with minor injuries, Torell said. The 47-year-old New Milford woman struck by the tree branch at South Dean Street and East Fo…

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Fort Lee, NJ
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Man held in Palisades Park slashing, fight with Fairview police Man held in Palisades Park slashing, fight with Fairview police Man held in Palisades Park slashing, fight with Fairview police
Man held in Palisades Park slashing, fight with Fairview police ONLY ON CVP: A Guatemalan native was being held on $100,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with slashing his girlfriend in Palisasdes Park and fighting with police in Fairview. The INS has also placed a detainer on 23-year-old Salvador Ramos, who is charged with aggravated assault with a weapon, assault on police, making terroristic threats and four counts of illegal weapons possession — two in each town. Police arrested Ramos at the victim’s sister’s house in Fairview following the incident, which began Saturday at the victim’s home in Palisades Park, police said. MUGSHOT: Cou…

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Teaneck, NJ
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Councilman who enraged law enforcement with anti-police comments, cartoons resigns Councilman who enraged law enforcement with anti-police comments, cartoons resigns Councilman who enraged law enforcement with anti-police comments, cartoons resigns
Councilman who enraged law enforcement with anti-police comments, cartoons resigns YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Sussex County councilman who stirred a firestorm with anti-police cartoons and comments resigned this morning, following a meeting last night that drew an overflow crowd of protesters calling for his ouster. David Fanale cited “excessive stress to his family and loved ones as the reason for his resignation,” Franklin Borough Mayor Paul B. Crowley said in a two-sentence news release. New Jersey State Corrections Officer Sean Kelly said he and his fellow officers are pleased with the outcome. “His beliefs and how he feels about law enforcement have no place in lo…

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Hackensack, NJ
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Convict in Hackensack 40-kilo, $1M cocaine deal facing 40 years Convict in Hackensack 40-kilo, $1M cocaine deal facing 40 years Convict in Hackensack 40-kilo, $1M cocaine deal facing 40 years
Convict in Hackensack 40-kilo, $1M cocaine deal facing 40 years ONLY ON CVP: Jurors in Hackensack needed less than three hours yesterday to convict a California truck driver of transporting 40 kilos of cocaine cross country to a New Jersey warehouse in exchange for more than $1 million in cash. Carlos Marroquin, 52, is facing up to 40 years in state prison, said his lawyer, Scott Finckenauer. “We anticipate filing an appeal, especially in view of the stiff penalty,” Finckenauer told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Carlos Marroquin (STORY / PHOTOS: Mary K. Miraglia, CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter) “Major narcotics suppliers like Marroquin bear direct respons…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Two sought, one caught after Englewood Cliffs stolen vehicle chase ends in Englewood crash Two sought, one caught after Englewood Cliffs stolen vehicle chase ends in Englewood crash Two sought, one caught after Englewood Cliffs stolen vehicle chase ends in Englewood crash
Two sought, one caught after Englewood Cliffs stolen vehicle chase ends in Englewood crash YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The second chase and crash in Bergen County overnight led to the arrest of an Englewood man and a teenage girl and the search for a second passenger. Englewood Cliffs Officer Kyle Ust tried stopping a stolen 2007 Dodge Ram pickup with New York license plates for several traffic violations on Palisade Avenue around 4 a.m. The driver kept going, however, and a brief chase ended when the Ram crashed near Dwight Place and Franklyn Street in Englewood, Police Capt. Daniel Morrissey said. The driver — identified as 19-year-old Malik Lee of Englewood — was caught, Morri…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Details released of high-speed chase from Newark that ended in Fairview crash Details released of high-speed chase from Newark that ended in Fairview crash Details released of high-speed chase from Newark that ended in Fairview crash
Details released of high-speed chase from Newark that ended in Fairview crash YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A high-speed police chase that began in Newark ended in Fairview with the arrest of two men after their car rammed several police vehicles and they tried to take off on foot, law enforcement sources with knowledge of the incident told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. A police car rammed the red sedan on 8th and Walker streets around 10:50 p.m., 20 minutes or so after the chase began in the area of Lyons Avenue and Fabyan Place in Newark when one of the suspects pulled a gun on an undercover officer, a police source said. “One of the police cars cornered the car and hit it on 8t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
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Man urinated on Ridgewood dispatch center door, tried doing same to employees, police say Man urinated on Ridgewood dispatch center door, tried doing same to employees, police say Man urinated on Ridgewood dispatch center door, tried doing same to employees, police say
Man urinated on Ridgewood dispatch center door, tried doing same to employees, police say YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An Elmwood Park man urinated on the front door to the Northwest Bergen Central Dispatch center and then tried doing the same to staffers there, Ridgewood police said. Richard Karcz, 31, was released on a summons to appear in court on charges of aggravated assault and urinating in public. Dispatchers watching surveillance cameras spotted Karcz urinating last Wednesday on the front door of their Garber Square facility, in the old Pease Library, police said.

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Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Lawyer doesn’t want jurors looking negatively at gang tattoo on man charged in Fairview bus stop beating Lawyer doesn’t want jurors looking negatively at gang tattoo on man charged in Fairview bus stop beating Lawyer doesn’t want jurors looking negatively at gang tattoo on man charged in Fairview bus stop beating
Lawyer doesn’t want jurors looking negatively at gang tattoo on man charged in Fairview bus stop beating ONLY ON CVP: The lawyer for a Cliffside Park gang member headed to trial on charges of breaking an 80-year old Port Authority employee’s jaw during a violent armed robbery in Fairview last summer asked the judge to instruct jurors not to read anything into the Bloods insignia tattoed on his client’s cheek. “It looks like a musical note to me,” Superior Court Judge James J. Guida told the defendant, 29-year-old Rashon Drone. “What is it?” “It is a ‘B’ with a 9 and a 3 inside it,” said Drone, whose alias is “Bloody Sincere.” Rashon “Bloody Sincere” Drone (STORY / PHOTOS: Mary K. Miraglia,…

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